Tomorrow Today:
A Juried Student Exhibition from Pasadena City College
May 5 - May 20, 2012
The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) and Pasadena City College (PCC) present Tomorrow Today, an exhibition featuring work by current art and design students at PCC, one of California’s premiere community colleges. The student work ranges from conceptual projects to traditional crafts, reflecting the generational perspectives and personal idiosyncrasies of an extraordinarily diverse community of student artists. Christopher Miles, distinguished art writer, curator and artist, will jury the exhibition.
Edgar Payne: The Scenic Journey
June 3, 2012 – October 14, 2012
As part of its tenth anniversary celebrations, the Pasadena Museum of California Art is pleased to present the first major showing of Edgar Payne (1883-1947) in over forty years. One of the most gifted of the historic California plein air artists, Payne utilized the brushwork and color of Impressionism, but his powerful landscape paintings departed from the genteel refinement depicted by most Impressionist painters. He imbued his works with an internal force and an active dynamism achieved through majestic, vital landscape subjects and a bravura application of pigment. The exhibition will trace his artistic development as he traveled the world, finding magnificence in diverse settings, including the southern and central California coast, the Sierra, the Swiss Alps, the harbors and waterways of France and Italy, and the desert Southwest.
This exhibition is curated by Dr. Scott Shields, with Dr. Patricia Trenton advising.
Edgar Payne: The Scenic Journey catalogue can be purchased online
View the trailer for the upcoming CPT12 PBS documentary Edgar Payne: The Scenic Journey
Project Room:
Layer: A Loose Horizon
June 3, 2012 – October 14, 2012
Continuing in the tradition of artists who have integrated the PMCA building into their exhibition, innovative art collaborative Layer that will occupy both the Project Room and the museum lobby, culminating in an impressive sculptural installation reaching across the museum’s outer façade. While software and digital fabrication have become indispensible elements of architectural design, enabling greater complexity of forms, the artists of Layer—Lisa Little and Emily White—challenge the ability of these tools to render environments that truly engage the visitor. By combining a computational approach with a perceptual one, the artists create a physically engrossing and intellectually stimulating spatial construction. The resulting project represents just one instance in a series of possible permutations. Sketches and early digital iterations of the piece will also be on view in the Project Room, revealing the artists’ process.
Greta Magnusson Grossman: A Car and Some Shorts
October 28, 2012 - February 24, 2013
Jessica Rath: Take Me to the Apple Breeder
October 28, 2012 - February 24, 2013
Guillermo Bert: Encoded Textiles
October 28, 2012 - February 24, 2013
